USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Background. Between 1500 and 1866, Europeans transported to the Americas nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans, about 1.8 million of whom died on the Middle Passage of the transatlantic slave trade .

Detailed explanation-2: -Nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped and trafficked across the Atlantic to the Americas, including the British, French, and Spanish colonies that would later comprise the United States. Two million people died during the barbaric Middle Passage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite the captain’s desire to keep as many slaves as possible alive, Middle Passage mortality rates were high. Although it’s difficult to determine how many Africans died en route to the new world, it is now believed that between ten and twenty percent of those transported lost their lives.

Detailed explanation-4: -Historians estimate that about one million enslaved people were sold and moved around the country between 1808 and the abolition of slavery in 1865. This internal movement of enslaved people is called the Second Middle Passage.

Detailed explanation-5: -12.5 million Africans forced aboard European and American slave ships. 10.7 million survivors of the Middle Passage disembarked in the New World.